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I probably saw this first on HN, but here is is anyway: The 404 page for the Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh features the Catholic patron saint of lost items:

https://diopitt.org/404

I always liked the way she sang "I'll Tell Me Ma." Most versions I've heard are upbeat. Hers sounded like she was an onlooker, not a participant - the kid no one would play with.

From what I remember reading, when they sent code over telegraph wires, dit and dah were distinguished by the time between clicks. Each one required two clicks to send, but the clicks were closer together for a dit.

You could probably Google it to be sure.

I'm a non-coding lurker here, but the only thing that ever motivated me to write my own program was to solve the newspaper anagram puzzle, "Jumble", faster than my wife. I wrote it in Basic, then re-wrote it in assembly language, I forget when. Then in Fortran while home bound during the first summer of the pandemic - to atone for my past sin of neglecting to learn Fortran when I had a chance in the late 1960's.

grammar: "cost-prohibited" should be "cost prohibitive"

Hope you can edit the page :)

In 1966, at age 18 I came home from the first year of college very tired. No amount of sleep made me feel rested. Everyone, including me, thought I had mononucleosis. I tested negative for mono and my family doctor said I had a virus that imitated mono, get some rest and it should go away.

In 1980 when CFS hit the news as "yuppie flu", the initial description was 'a virus that imitated mono.' My family doctor got it right 14 years earlier.

It is difficult to be diagnosed with CFS because you have to eliminate every other cause of tiredness first -- MS, cancer, etc. One doctor told me that tiredness was a symptom of every disease in the book. I never had unlimited funds at my disposal, so I never pursued eliminating all other causes. Eventually I concluded that if it had been serious I'd have died already. My last doctor finally put on my chart 'he is chronically tired and we don't know why" or words to that effect.

As for my experience with it, it has been lousy. Why wouldn't you be depressed if you can't go where you want (or your spouse wants), can't work full time, live poorly as a result, etc. Eventually you learn to live within your limitations and don't push yourself too hard - because you will pay for it later.

My advice is kind of glib: don't let it get you down. I have a belief system that has helped me tremendously in dealing with it and a spouse that has reconciled herself to not going out to eat very often (never, since the pandemic), not socializing greatly (she is introverted anyway), and not taking long vacations - this she misses. Find yourself both - a belief system that supports you (I don't want to take the discussion in that direction) and family and associates that understand.

And they haven't found a cure. When they find a real one, you will hear about it. So don't waste your time and money on snake oil. If it works for you, do it. Less coffee and sweets works for me, at least it helps matters.

And thanks for asking. I'm not a coder by any means so I usually just lurk here. But I've wanted to put this in words for a while.

I hope so too. I recognized the symptoms (in myself) as soon as I started reading the abstract.

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from the link cdrini posted above, which is a Guardian article by one of the authors of the study in the original post.[0]

"Even those without long Covid could benefit from such research, as symptoms noted in long Covid patients show many similarities to those seen in chronic and viral-related illnesses including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – another disease that has been dismissed as “psychological” for decades. Just because we have not yet identified a biomarker for long Covid does not mean biomarkers do not exist. We just need to look harder."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29808020

PS. Hope the post is done correctly, it's my first one here.